In the Sunday Papers
Reasonably interesting if depressing stuff today. The Sunday Times claims Tory members are turning on David Cameron, particularly over his failure to capitalise on the Labour peerages-for-sale scandal. Naturally Matthew d'Acona in the Telegraph has no such fears. And over in the Independent, Cameron is promising no early release for prisoners, which may of course yet become a way of capitalising on the peers-for-sale scandal. The Times also claims that there is an expenses 'Black Hole' in Tony Blair's constituency dealings, and to do so illustrates (on the home page) it with a picture of Tony Blair looking a tad like Silvio Berlusconi.
The Observer has a leak of the first official report into the July 7th bombings, and it finds that there was no Al Qaeda '5th man' or apparently any link at all. The bombers were motivated by anger over the war in Iraq and a belief in immortality, though if they really wanted was to experience that on the Circle Line in rush-hour all they would have needed to do would be to sit on it normally like everyone else.
Seymour Hersh, says the Telegraph, claims the Bush Admnistration are going to launc a nuclear strike on Iran to prevent it getting nuclear weapons. A Senior Iraqi Official says Iraq is in civil war, says the Independent.
Finally a lot of the papers cover Wayne Rooney's alleged £700,000 'gambling debts'. For example here. The good news, for Colleen and Wayne, apparently, is that as gambling debts are not enforceable he might not have to pay it.
UPDATE: Tories claim there was an Al-Qaeda link!
posted by Matthew @ 4/09/2006 07:14:00 AM
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